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book
templateThis is a more elaborate template for a book. It has
\frontmatter
, \mainmatter
, and \backmatter
to
control the typography of the three main areas of a book
(see \frontmatter & \mainmatter & \backmatter). The book has a
bibliography and an index.
Notable is that it uses \include
and \includeonly
(see Splitting the input). While you are working on a chapter you
can comment out all the other chapter entries from the argument to
\includeonly
. That will speed up compilation without losing any
information such as cross-references. (Material that does not need to
come on a new page is brought in with \input
instead of
\include
. You don’t get the cross-reference benefit this way.)
\documentclass[titlepage]{book} \usepackage{makeidx}\makeindex \title{Book Class Template} \author{Alex Author} \includeonly{% frontcover, preface, chap1, ... } \begin{document} \frontmatter \include{frontcover} % maybe comment out while drafting: \maketitle \input{dedication} \input{copyright} \tableofcontents \include{preface} \mainmatter \include{chap1} ... \appendix \include{appena} ... \backmatter \bibliographystyle{apalike} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography} \bibliography \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index} \printindex \include{backcover} \end{document}